What's new from Grafana Labs

What's new from Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs products, projects, and features can go through multiple release stages before becoming generally available. These stages in the release life cycle can present varying degrees of stability and support. For more information, refer to release life cycle for Grafana Labs.

What's new from Grafana Labs
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SCIM user and team provisioning

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Enterprise Available in public preview Authentication and authorization IRM
Release date: 2025-05-05

We are excited to announce SCIM user and group provisioning.

Previously, provisioned users needed to individually sign in to Grafana to exist within the platform, and administrators faced the time-consuming task of creating and managing teams - either manually or via provisioning. This process was complicated and often presented a bottleneck for new team members getting up and running quickly.


New Dashboard APIs released as experimental

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-05-05

With this release we’re rethinking our dashboards APIs and introducing a new model that is consistent, versioned, and resource-oriented. We’re releasing them as experimental, with the intent to gather feedback and deliver a stable version to users with one of the next releases.


Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant Now Generally Available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date: 2025-05-05

We’re excited to announce that the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant is now generally available to all users! After a successful public preview period, this powerful tool is ready to transform how self-managed Enterprise customers and OSS users transition to Grafana Cloud.


Introducing Investigations

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview
Release date: 2025-05-05

This brand new feature, coming to Public Preview in Grafana v12, is designed to streamline how you approach problem-solving by bringing all your relevant signals together in one unified view.


Logs Drilldown improvements

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date: 2025-05-05

Last October at ObsCon, we announced the GA of Logs Drilldown, and we’ve been hard at work expanding its capabilities to help you visualize your logs data with more flexibility and options.


Metrics Drilldown improvements

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date: 2025-05-05

At ObsCon last October, we announced the GA of Metrics Drilldown, and we’ve been hard at work expanding its capabilities to help you reduce the number of metrics you need to manage with just a few clicks.


Removal of editors_can_admin configuration

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Authentication and authorization Breaking change
Release date: 2025-05-05

Effective starting in Grafana 12.0, the configuration option editors_can_admin is removed. 

The editors_can_admin setting in Grafana allows users with the Editor role to create and manage Grafana Teams.  Editors in instances with this configuration setting no longer have these extra privileges.


Trace correlations: instant context hops from any trace

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Traces Explore
Release date: 2025-05-02

Troubleshooting with traces just got a lot faster in Grafana Cloud. Trace correlations lets you configure custom, context-aware links straight into every span in the trace view. With a single click, you can now jump from a trace to:


Native Histograms Under Public Preview

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Metrics
Release date: 2025-05-02

We are excited to announce the public preview of native histograms!

Native histograms are a metric type in Prometheus that can produce, store, and query high-resolution histograms of observations. They usually offer higher resolution and more straightforward instrumentation than classic histograms.


k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are generally available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-05-01

We’re excited to announce that k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.

k6 browser checks allow you to go beyond traditional monitoring, enabling you to test and validate real user flows and gain insight into performance in ways you can’t with HTTP-level checks. With browser checks, you’re not just monitoring performance at a protocol level; you’re simulating user interactions that provide you with a much richer view of your app’s behavior in production.


Custom metric labeling for scrape jobs in AWS Observability

Grafana Cloud Generally Available
Release date: 2025-04-30

You can define custom labels at the scrape job level across all services in a job, making it easier to:

  • Attribute costs
  • Track ownership
  • Apply consistent metadata

Especially valuable for teams without direct access to AWS tagging, this feature:


Per-service configuration for logs queries

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Application observability Traces Logs
Release date: 2025-04-28

You can now configure logs queries per-service and override the global configuration for services in Application Observability.

This feature allows you to change how service details query logs and facilitate traces to logs, providing the flexibility to mix and match signals across databases and datasources.


Incident Timeline and Attachments in IRM Mobile App

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM Incident
Release date: 2025-04-28

We keep making it easier to manage incidents from anywhere — no laptop needed!

With this latest update, you can now dive into the full incident timeline directly from your phone. Instantly catch up on everything that’s happened: comments, notes, attachments, and key activity — all organised chronologically.


GA release of Grafana Traces Drilldown

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Traces Drilldown
Release date: 2025-04-25

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) release of Grafana Traces Drilldown, bringing a simplified, queryless experience to distributed tracing analysis. Building on months of public preview feedback and lessons learned from the Drilldown suite, this GA release delivers a refined, integrated solution for deep-dive trace analysis.


Pipeline attribute injection in Grafana Fleet Management

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Alloy
Release date: 2025-04-23

Pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management can now inject variable collector attribute values into their configurations. This powerful new feature enables you to create dynamic configurations that adapt to each collector’s characteristics, reducing the need for multiple similar pipelines.